LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The popularity of flag football has skyrocketed in recent years across America, for both boys and girls.

Las Vegas has become a national hot spot for the future Olympic sport, helping Nevada rank second among U.S. states in girl's flag football participation.

Nevada was one of the first states to make girl's flag football a sanctioned high school sport. The Las Vegas Raiders have since helped grow the game with clinics and now even the team's own middle school league .

As for examples of local trailblazers in the sport, look no further than Coronado High grad Maci Joncich and Bonanza High grad Brianna Hernandez-Silva: Two Las Vegas Valley natives to compete on US Women's National Flag Football Team

The Las Vegas Valley natives were recently selected to the final

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